Building bridges: an interdisciplinary reading on globalization in geography education through the literature of Eduardo Galeano

Abstract

Approaches to Geography, Geography Education, and Literature have been increasing in recent times, especially in the last 15 years, in Brazilian academic production. Seeking to add efforts in this field, we present a possibility of a relationship between Geography Education and Literature. Here, we start from an analysis of globalization establishing a dialogue between forms of expression of knowledge related to academic-scientific, on the one hand, and literary, on the other hand, appropriating what João Zanetic calls authors of literature with a scientific vein and scientists with a literary flavor, promoting an encounter between Eduardo Galeano and geographers who have thought about globalization. At this moment, we present a possibility of articulation of Literature in Geography Education, which starts from the general, from more generic conceptions about the process of globalization, of those universalizing phenomena, which must be problematized in school education from social practice.